Have you considered reading all those other replies you’ve gotten in all those other topics you’ve made over the years?
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If 85% of the playerbase is bots, then solo players aren’t the majority of the playerbase.
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If the game is only populated by lvl 220 accounts playing aram, then they aren’t 3-5 stacks stomping solo players; the distribution of that population would have them facing each other.
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If the game is only played by forum “modders” on their alts, then they aren’t 3-5 stacks stomping solo players since the ‘modders’ have account levels higher than 220.
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If “everyone” is sacrificed to cater to premades, then the game isn’t forced 50%.
Far as I can tell, you haven’t ever enjoyed playing this game since you bog yourself down with conspiracy rants. Despite claiming to play other ‘better’ games, you come back around to HotS to complain year after year. You rarely specify any details about your experience, and you also have a tendency to undermine your own claims, as indicated with the list above.
Complaints about ‘stacks’ generally only matters to QM, and it matters to QM because that mode allows the stacks to pre-draft their team. That is especially problematic because the ‘majority’ of QM complaints come from players expecting to solo queue heroes like Nova at odd hours of the day, while also decrying mirror matching.
In years prior, what appeared to be your choice of account was an “ARAM main”, so that deflated your complaints about ‘stacks’ since winrate disparity for stacks in aram is diminished compared to QM stacking. Since you continue your habit of not including details of the problems you’re having, people may default to thinking that you are:
- playing qm
- queueing as a popular assassin pick
- smurfing on another account (since HP doesn’t have recent games for “BBChoho”
The ‘point’ of playing HotS is to “have fun” or muck about in a “sunk cost fallacy”
The devs have indicated that HotS is “most fun” when playing in a group. Because the game was designed to encourage players to group, the game gives direct advantages to groups – bonus xp, gold – and indirect advantages (such as avoiding trolly ‘allies’) that makes the game “unfair” to people that don’t play in a group.
When the game had active development, the devs concluded that the most important factor to the playerbase was “low queue times”'. So they made changes to the game to prioritize getting matches quickly and thus lumped much of the pool together to ‘random’ solo players end up playing with groups.
The constraints of the solo/group dynamic are further strained, for QM, because the game tries really hard to avoiding ‘mirror matches’ despite having a huge disparity in hero picks, and role distribution.
The disparity between ‘solo’ and ‘groups’ is known, so the idea is that players that continue to play the game do so because they are ‘willing’ to accept that “handicap”.
For some players, overcoming a ‘challenge’ is what makes the game “fun”, so they’re ‘willing’ to play with the handicap.
Group players tend to group because:
- the game incentivizes them to do so
- avoiding trolls, complainers, afk, etc etc makes the game more enjoyable
The ‘majority’ of players aren’t stacking to specifically abuse QM winrates – which again, operating on the assumption that is your qualm – and coordinate their games on discord. The ‘majority’ of such players are ‘average’ players that have a high winrate because the typical solo-obsessed pug player sabotages their own game.
The game is ‘fun’ for people that avoid specific kinds of players. However, despite all the obvious signs of that disparity, some people still refuse to consider that, and instead make up all sorts of others reasons to repeat themselves instead of learning how to have ‘fun’ themselves.
What’s the point of cycling around the same type of game if you’re not going to bother improving yourself? In a ‘skill-based’ game, people that stagnate are handicapping themselves. So, at some point, if you want to stop doing that, you’re going to have to start using “honest questions” instead of looking to validate your complaints.